The Israel Anti-Boycott Act is gaining steam in Congress, picking up co-sponsors from both parties. This bill would amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to make it a crime to support boycotts fostered by international governmental organizations, such as the United Nations or European Union, against Israel, as well as, “Israeli controlled territories,” i.e. the settlements. Violators are subject to a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty o f $1 million and 20 years in prison. These are shockingly draconian penalties for what is undeniably political speech.

As the Trump Administration gears up to increase incarceration rates, more people will be locked up in prisons run for profit. Those prisons hold themselves exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. It's time to close that loophole now. Support the Private Prison Information Act of 2017

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We have developed the following local campaigns, which allow individual municipalities to do what the federal government will not: protect law-abiding Americans’ liberty and privacy, and hold accountable government officials complicit in torture.

Local Civil Rights Restoration (LCRR) campaigns focus on ending local police participation in warrantless surveillance and profiling based on race, religion, or political viewpoint

Campaigns to restore due process and the right to trial work to end the indefinite military detention powers authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012

Torture-free zone campaigns give local communities a voice to call for executive officials who authorized torture to be held accountable for their crimes